Not Your PD Momma's Doom and Gloom Report

[Call Me Cordelia]

Wonderful news, WI. Thank you for sharing. Wish we could be friends in real life! We'd all take you out for umbrella drinks.

[bloomie]

WI - your courage and grace under pressure is inspiring! Thankful for this good report. Sending continued strength and peace as you move through treatment.

[Psuedonym]

We love you, WomanInterrupted!!

I only recently learned that you were dealing with cancer ($%#@ cancer!) and am so relieved to hear this news. You are so important to everybody here on this forum and we're all super proud of you. You are a badass but we already knew that.

I hope you have a spectacular holiday and treat yo self! You deserve it.

[Psuedonym]

...oh and also, when I read that you had cancer i heard the ghost of Didi say "I have caaaaaaaaaanncer!'. Congratulations on being the 180 degree polar opposite of her. That is a high honor.

[Boat Babe]

So glad it's going well WI. Your grit and grace are beautiful and have touched me.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for all that you have shared with us, your clarity and insight have probably helped hundreds of people.  I am one of them ❤️❤️❤️
You rock Lady!

[nanotech]

Congratulations on your good news about the cancer -kicking chemo!
You are an inspiration to all of us on here in many, many ways.
I've truly  lost count of the number of times you've helped me by making me feel stronger and more able to cope. I see you helping others too, time after time. Wonderful advice and support. 😊

       

Just wow to you, your family story itself is a tough one, yet always with humour you relate the tools required to beat the PD relatives. Then too,  the 'non-PD ness' of your recent health issues  shows us just how 💪 strong  you are - we know  how to be super PD -free women and men!
Power to your elbow!💪  xxxxx❤️😍🥰

[p123]

Excellent news WI. Look after yourself.....

Truly awful the way they both treated you when you were ill before. I can well believe it. It seems to some your illness is no more than a hindrance to them because you can't do what they want.

[alphaomega]

To the Wonder Woman (Interrupted) who helped me find my voice better than any therapist EVER, and I swear, held my hand Out of the FOG just with her honest and forthright writings, I celebrate your healing and imperceptible resilience!!! 

You are a #bossbitch

And don't you EVER forget it....

XO AO

[Andeza]

This is so freaking awesome! So happy to hear things are going well. Now you just need one of those t-shirts that says "eff cancer"

Heck, I too heard Didi's ghost wail for a moment there. 

Ah well, let us banish the wailing of waifish ghosts and celebrate! 

[doglady]

Glad to hear thing are going to be ok, W.I. You'll totally kick this. And thank goodness Didi isn't about to make it all about her. 

You do such a magnificent job on this forum. Your sense of humour and straight-up sensible advice is the best!
 

[WomanInterrupted]

Thank you all so very, very much!    

Yeah, I can just about hear Didi whining, "That's not FAIR!  You got the curable caaaaaancer!  I was supposed to get that!" 

Right now, there's a lull in the activity - I have a feeding tube consult tomorrow, will probably get the feeding tube before the end of the year, and a CT scan the day after Christmas.

The Big Show - 5 days of  radiation plus 1 day of chemo X 7 weeks - starts around January 13ish, and will go until the end of February - and thankfully, it's been so cold that our Great Lake should be frozen over by Saturday, meaning no lake effect snow storms that can dump nine FEET in 24 hours!   

I might have to brave some crap weather, but it's the northeast and we're used to it.   

I wasn't going to get the feeding tube, but they're doing radiation on both sides of my neck.  I think I'll be okay, but I don't want to take the chance I'm wrong, and can't eat or drink.   

The tube goes through the abdominal wall, and you can find all kinds of videos on YouTube, but a specialist will be coming out to show me how to use  it, meaning I have to clean, because I don't want her seeing cat hair tumbleweeds.   

The tube is actually my biggest worry - I'm going to have to keep it hidden beneath cotton/spandex/lycra camisole tops - for some reason, medical tape is leaving marks that last for *months* AND  I don't want any of our cats thinking I had some kind of toy installed!

THIS is a phone call you never want to have to make:  "Hello?  Yes, um, can I come in and have the doctor reinstall my PEG tube?  One of my cats thought it was a toy and ran off with it." 

Or chewed 52,000 holes in it while I was asleep! 

I'm really appreciative of the lack of appointments before I have to be everywhere at once.  I'm looking at it as a sort of mini vacation, then I just get through everything, one day at a time, until it's over and I get an all-clear. 

I've already got "A Fucking 2020 Calendar" out so I can jot down appointments, and January's sentiment is, "2020 is gonna be my bitch."

HELLS yes!   

Eventually, anyway.   

For now, I'll settle with having something to shampoo in the shower, and other areas to shave!   

[Thru the Rain]

WI - Sending you prayers and strength and hugs.

So glad things are going better than expected.

I've never had a feeding tube, but I do have cats who chew EVERYTHING so I know the worry is real!

[blacksheep7]

Wow WI

So happy for you!



Hope everything will go well tomorrow.


Take care 

[sarandro]

I just wanted to say thank you to you personally..Woman Interrupted...you have helped me so much with your posts...your humour and your ability to help others see what's really going on.

I hope you are doing OK, you are strong..keep on rocking, lovelyxx

[stasia]

Hope all goes well, WI!

When boyfriend had his colonoscopy that was my biggest worry - that he'd need to wear a bag and how on earth does THAT work with cats that like to climb him with their sharp little claws...  The mental images I had were Not Pretty!!

You have been a real inspiration to me and helped me so much when I was in the FOG and terrified of the whole shitshow with M and the social workers repeating itself. Stay strong!

[Sidney37]

WI-
I'm not on this part of the forum often, so I missed your diagnosis post.  I am so thankful that you are seeing such good progress with your treatment.  Like many here, your experience and advice has helped me immensely, even if it took you telling me something multiple times before it sunk in.      Thank you for that!  I hope your feeding tube consult goes well today and that you continue to heal.  Sending virtual hugs to you!

[Kiki81]

That is fabulous news! Don't change a thing about your approach, your thought process and your attitude---they are winners

[kaizen]

Hurray! I'm so glad your treatment is getting good results. Have a wonderful 2020!

[qcdlvl]

I'm glad your treatment is going well, WI. I admire your dignity, strength and wisdom.

[Zebrastriped]

WI, I hope all is well in 2020 with the treatments and with you and yours.  You very much walked me through alot of bad times and changes.  I hope there is someone out there as double as wonderful to you as you've been.